As I pointed out before, the deepest irony here is that nearly all of these people *are fucking nerds themselves* spending themselves dry on gunpla or Warhammer, with elaborate opinions about obscure TTRPG systems and A24 movies. They're flinching from the shadow of their own sincerity--and trauma.

It's pretty interesting seeing people adopt these symbols, but leftishly. In many ways, these leftists are accepting the moral universe of petty fascists--and also acting out their own trauma in particularly dumb ways. "Everything is high school" used to be the sole reserve of the far right.

every single person who talks about how data centers are completely unnecessary probably has very strong opinions on youtube videos defaulting to 720p

I feel like there's a growing gap in perception between people who use LLMs to code or do code-adjacent things and people who only evaluate LLMs on their ability to write prose. This might be a stretched analogy but it reminds me of the different "worlds" of the polarized US media environment.

Meanwhile memory chips are increasing in price so fast that by the time Neuromancer comes out this fall you will *actually* be able to get killed in Chiba City for 3 MB of hot RAM.

i do think this is actually the perfect response insofar as it illustrates how these dorks actually just fantasize about getting to be the bullies in high school

In conclusion: this sort of power-worship, which imagines Caesar must have been a man of Vision and Genius in all things because he was really good at one thing (killing) is gross and unbecoming of scholars and should have been rejected ages ago.

It is also bullshit? The idea that Julius Caesar had a vision for a new Rome or a new world is this persistent thread in his reception and even in scholarship that really doesn't reflect the evidence. Caesar didn't have a single coherent program, but a collection of disjointed ad hoc decisions.

It is abundantly clear from Alito's jurisprudence that he thinks the only real racism is discrimination against white people.

Political ideology is the strongest predictor of Messi-Ronaldo preference. Authoritarians who like short-form video are more likely to think Ronaldo is the GOAT.

Impact fees were designed to fund infrastructure growth caused by new development. They've drifted into funding decades of deferred maintenance for existing residents. The burden falls disproportionately on younger buyers with less wealth. www.independent.org/article/2026...

“Through the combination of Shelby County, Brnovich, and Callais, the Supreme Court has systematically dismantled the federal government’s ability to meaningfully police racial discrimination in democratic structures.” www.liberalcurrents.com/callais-affe...

seemingly underrated aspect of DSA's electoral successes against incumbent moderate and centrist democrats is simply that the latter got lazy

they're calling it caudillismo hyperpolitics, people, more and more are saying caudillismo hyperpolitics, only weak and wrong want technocratic antipolitics, we're having, we're having the strongest and healthiest strongstman

Not the main point here but you do see a fun online tick where the transition from '0 Elected Dems are DSA-backed' to '~5% of Elected Dems are DSA-backed'' is treated as 'The DSA run the party now!' by both pro and anti DSA people.

"new productive forces [peptides] will save us"

anyways fuck it, gonna lay down this marker so i can quote-skeet it in twenty years: xi is the louis xiv of china. the guy after him is gonna be a nobody. it's the guy after *that* who's gonna be completely insane

The PSL challenging Sherrod Brown is legit the dumbest shit I have ever seen. what a bunch of LARPing freaks

My polling place was a ghost town.

This is in response to Mamdani criticizing AIPAC, and I wanted to point out an awful, bitter irony. There are *absolutely* people conflating AIPAC and all Jews to tar all Jews with AIPAC’s sins, but this post conflates AIPAC and all Jews *to keep people from criticizing AIPAC*.

as with many things in re i/p, my basic bitch liberal take is that AIPAC sucks ass *and also* that the people who think "AIPAC=ROTHSCHILDS!!!" also suck

ROMANTASY BATTLE OF MIDWAY AU WHEN

I can't tell if I've ASOIAF'd it or romantasy slop'd it. Both are equally dubious and have baffling implications for Fuchida Mitsuo

The most slovenly man alive agrees with incel mass shooters? I’m shocked

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it's good to see someone pushing for a legislative solution to Citizens United as a campaign promise, genuinely love to see that

had an *amazing* moment at the bar where a young guy explained to me, with absolute seriousness, that "christians and catholics are fundamentally different. catholics believe that christ returned from the dead, and christians don't"

"oh he's not a racist he just opposes dysgenics"

"he's not an incel he's just against 'hypergamy'" what exactly do you imagine that incels believe

the thing that’s happened with social media — twitter, specifically — is that billionaires cooked their brains into thinking their pathologies represent the mainstream body politic, and they’re as wrong about that as every radical here who thinks there’s a communist uprising just around the corner

this is probably the perfect example of how degenerate research programs like marxism prevent you from seeing what is in front of your face, aka the oldest of all enemies, the biopolitics of patriarchy

A few hours left to vote. Head to the polls before 9pm. Bring the whole family along. Let’s get it done, NY-10!

Cancel spacex’s corporate franchise

So I just wrote a red light/green light guide to understanding who to trust on the left for this friend and I'm wondering if I would get in trouble for posting it here.

I think a lot of people bought into the idea that the United States does nothing to save lives anywhere in the world and cannot admit that they were horrifyingly wrong.

Womp womp

YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO ARRY

but the idea that any of this is "anti-imperialist" is not out of nowhere: in this mindset, the "Empire" is the woke progressive gay effeminate civilization that is suppressing the truth of true real manly masculine men acoup.blog/2020/01/17/c...

i'm seeing multiple people blame the left for this, so for those who missed it: Compact is a reactionary thinkslop rag headed by three guys whose resumes show them to be exactly the sort of person that informs the thinking of your typical marble face pvp dipshit

there's something remarkable how on a scientific level we're performing what would essentially be miracles and on a cultural/political level, we're going in reverse

This line always drives me bonkers, there never was an American golden age in which high-quality weapons were produced rapidly, cheaply, and without bureaucratic friction. That is always has and will be a myth

yeah as someone who's on the other side of the content business, it is very striking how much "you have to make money" functions as a discipline on content production, and how various outfits not bound by that constraint are prone to incompetence

once again i am asking you to it is summertime baby

There is a severe shortage of housing in Canadian cities. Construction has not kept pace with population growth or household formation. The answer isn’t to blame immigrants, but to build more housing of all kinds (public, private, non-profit).

EXCLUSIVE: Eli Lilly gave compassionate use access to retatrutide, their unapproved powerful obesity drug, to a 79-year-old man in April. The application was arranged by a top doctor at NIH, and cleared by the FDA. www.statnews.com/2026/06/23/e...

This is a really interesting read about how South Africa remade its entire judicial system after apartheid fell. Lessons to be learned here. www.liberalcurrents.com/how-to-rebui...

This is a detailed and comprehensive analysis of the history of political violence in the US that refutes many common myths, misconceptions, and misguided conspiracy theories.

"What, Starmerism rather daringly asked, would happen if we ran on deliverism without delivering?"